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[1683] Mor 12625      
Subject_1 PROOF.
Subject_2 DIVISION IV.

Private Deed, how far probative.
Subject_3 SECT. V.

Accounts, Account-books how far Probative.

John Currier of Whytmure
 v.
Patrick Haliburton

1683. March.
Case No. No 518.

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A person pursuing for a debt assigned to him by a merchant, it was alleged by the defender, That the debt stood discharged in the cedent's count-books.

The Lords finding that the book was an entire and fair merchant book, wherein the precise sum was marked received, of a date anterior to the intimation of the assignation, “they sustained it equivalent to a discharge.”

 Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 260. Harcarse, (Discharges.) No 418. p. 112.

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